What's the Challenge?

I'll tell you what's a challenge, comparing a non-fiction text with a fiction text. But I like challenges, at least I think I do, so why not try to compare text completely different texts. Am I right?

So the in Holes towards the end, it in a way talks about fate or good luck, maybe even a curse because of the pig stealing great-great-grandfather. It doesn't necessarily talk about the curse being true, but coincidently the "curse" broke off. "Stanley's mother insists that there never was a curse. She even doubts whether Stanley's great-great-grandfather really stole a pig. The reader might find it interesting, however, that Stanley's father invented his cure for foot odor the day after the great-great-grandson of Elya Yelnats carried the great-great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni up the mountain." The book gives the message of curses aren't real but fate can think otherwise, the grandchildren of Madame Zeroni and Elya Yelants. Then again it could've all been a coincidence and the fact that Stanley had the will to bring himself together and devise a plan to help himself and Zero bringing him redemption could be the meaning. But let us stick with the curse and fate meaning shall we?

Chris Jericho from The Best in the World felt he had a curse too except his doesn't have an ending to it. On a return to wrestling he feels something always goes wrong, this time he didn't really see to it as a it being curse worthy. "Now those of you who have read my previous books might be think the match was Jericho Curse worthy. It wasn't a bad match, it was just kinda there." Usually he will say how his returns had something wrong happening, but he didn't see it too bad this time, just mediocre.

Both books though have a thing with curses, though I realize now why it is different. One is non-fiction and in reality, curses might not be much of a thing, just repeated coicidences. But in fiction things aren't a reality, the curse might've been real in the book letting it fade away once the promise was done when the grandson carried the other grandson. That's why their curse lasted so long because the promise was never done, but once it was completed everything went their way. So I think the difference was just the genre, unless curses are real.

A Hole Of Zero

What is up y'all, Whole Blogging Show here and unfortunately I won't be writing on my Foley is Good because of my ability of losing things. But I have moved on to something for the moment, something for the entertainment, something for the blogs, something so I don't get yelled at by my teacher. Holes.

Now I have read Holes three times and it shouldn't be a problem for me to forget everything, I mean I barely remember the page number my evidence is on. But I chose this book because I love it. This is my favorite fiction book by far, even better than Project Cain, so I chose it to get a good flow on my blogs and kind of make it more easier to blog about something. (This is not cheating, I hope)

What I want to talk about today is the character analysis of Zero. Zero is a key player in this book, especially with his introduction. He is introduced as a kid with no knowledge or though of what he is doing or why he is at the camp. At least that's what the characters say. Zero is something more than that. This is how he introduced,  "'You know why his name's Zero?' asked Mr. Pendanski. 'Because there's nothing inside his head.' He smiled and playfully shook Zero's shoulder. Zero said nothing." He's introduced as a nothing and in the situation looks like a nothing. But he is more than what he shows.

Later he exposes himself a little by asking Stanley about the shoes which Stanley "stole" which has Stanley confused as to how he knows about them and that he talks. "'Did the shoes have red X's on the back?' Zero asked. It took Stanley a moment, but then he realized zero was asking about Clyde Livingston's shoes. 'Yes they did,' he said. He wondered how Zero knew that. Brand Z was a popular brand of sneakers. Maybe Clyde Livingston made a commercial for them. Zero started at him for the moment, with the same intensity with which he had been staring at the letter." Zero reveals more about him that he is hiding, he obviously isn't living up to his name. He is showing there's a lot more in his mind rather in the beginning when he wouldn't talk to anyone not even to Stanley. But Zero has to be hiding something that associates with Stanley's shoe situation.

Make a Difference

By helping people who need help, it's casual but it makes a difference, especially when people see you do it. They we follow the example you make. For instance, helping an old lady, if she were to be in need of help and you'd help her she'd probably want to help someone because of that feeling people get. Helping one person makes the person you helped also want to help starting a chain reaction. It's like that video where this guy helped someone and the person he had helped went on to help more and more people. That's what I think would happen. You'd make a difference, they'd make a difference and it'd be a chain reaction. I honestly think everyone is capable of causing change, but sometimes you'd need a cause to make a cause.

Controversy Creates Cash

Hello guys, what is up? Today I am going to write about Controversy Creates Cash. I have written about Bischoff's weak moments of WCW but after a while it rose and revolutionized wrestling. Due to poor running of the company and loss of control losing to the executives of AOL, WCW slowly died out. Eric does though reflect on his rise and downfall on WCW and being able to Coke close to sending WWE out of business. "When you make a list of the people who have had the most positive impact on the sports entertainment business as we know it today, it's a very short list. The list of people who have actually changed the business is even shorter. Clearly at the top of that list is Vince McMahon. Inarguably, he is the individual who took professional wrestling from a regional territory business and rolled it out nationally on cable and network television and subsequently changed the business forever. Below Vince McMahon, there's probably one one person when has had anywhere near the impact on the way the business is conducted today." This shows how Bischoff helped the business, Vince brought it to people around the world. Bischoff helped the WWE in becoming sports entertainment. Bischoff is proud of what he did to help professional wrestling become what it is today. 

"I take a lot of pride in that. The things I did to make WCW competitive  changed the business fundamentally, from a creative and strategic point of view. I believe that if it weren't for that competition, WWE would have continued along the oath it had been on, The wrestling business would have gotten flat-so flat that the WWE might not have had the opportunities it's had over the past several years, including becoming a public company." Without competition and having a stale product is bad. If there was only one gas station and it costed $10 for a gallon people would go to there be slowly the revenue would die out because of a new gas station that opened with $5 for a gallon. When competitions grow it becomes a bigger decision for the consumer to decide which company to choose because by then both companies are giving their all. It becomes a soon to be bigger thing because of competition. Bischoff started the completion by creating controversy, he needed to bad mouth the competition in order to get attention and he did which started a rivalry between two companies that revolutionized wrestling. But to start a revolution you need controversy to create cash. 

Without Workers, There is No Cash

There was also another person who refused to do work and get along with the new person in charge of WCW and it was Jesse Ventura. He was a celebrity walking into WCW giving them more mainstream attention. When Bischoff started signing other people, for instance Hulk Hogan, he began getting jealous from how much attention they were getting and not him. He started to act naive and wouldn't work with anybody. "Jesse would come in to do his work and literally pout like a child. He'd have a bad attitude and mope around in the studio. He'd treat people badly, show up late, and just in general behave like a spoiled brat." Jesse gave no one respect after him having to step down from his popularity pedestals and sit there and be jealous. After a while he started to do nothing which made Bischoff angry and fire him. "This guys is running around, badmouthing Hogan, badmouthing the company, and walking around like one big dark cloud. I'm paying an entire production crew to suck air because this idiot is taking a nap in the middle of the day. It dawned me that I no longer wanted to do business with Jesse Ventura. The that all he did was moan when I woke him up confirmed it." With him disrespecting Bischoff and not even showing up can risk the company to lose its money and doing that was not right. Which is why Bischoff fired him. 

Controversy Creates Conflicts

What is up my dinguses! Whole Blogging Show here and I have started a new book called Controversy Creates Cash by Eric Bischoff, so far it has talked about his life and his job at promoting events, one of the events he promotes was falling from competition and he had been promoted to Vice President of the company to turn it around and so far it is having its rise. I have noticed though that turn around has had its conflicts and bumps. One of which was gaining trust and companionship from the other workers. Ole Anderson was a book and Bischoff had tried to work with him but couldn't due to the different views of wrestling. "When I listened to Ole talk about strategic activities and where the business should go, it was obvious he didn't understand wrestling's new direction." Bischoff couldn't work with the others because at the same time he was trying to bring his company up and make it successful, the workers with their ideas would only bring it down and with that he was hated because of his standpoints. Because of all the heat he was getting from Ole he demoted him to be a helper in the power plant. "That was pretty much the end of the road for aloe. The humiliation of being demoted from booker, and then being knocked out in front of everybody in the wrestling not school-Ole had enough embarrassment for a decade, and he moved out." Ole was tired of the way Bischoff ran things and the way he was treated so he left the company for himself which kind of hurt the company losing a good person for the company.

Blogging: My Improbable Journey to Being the Best at Blogging

There is a lot of things that can be common between wrestling, stories and journeys that Chris Jericho and Daniel Bryan. But I think both have views of wrestling different, Bryan says at times if he wondered was wrestling worth it, "But I naively assumed that when I was done wrestling, I could always go home and make up for all the time I've missed with my family and friends. Now, going home isn't same, and there is nothing I can do to make for all the time I've spent always from my father." Bryan was not happy that he missed so much of his life for wrestling and it saddens him, especially since he no longer would see his father anymore. Jericho though sometimes sees wrestling worth it because it's what he dedicated his life for since he was a kid. Jericho was passionate for wrestling and though Bryan was as well passionate, he didn't get his time with his friends and family like Jericho. 

Both though have favorite moments of their career which shows even though wrestling wasn't completely worth it, they still had their highlights of their career. Jericho's favorite was his third return to WWE in the Royal Rumble 2013 because of how much his fans cheered for him to be back, "It was such a thrill to see the fans, MY fans, jump up on their feet and lose their minds when Jericho flashed across the Tron. It was the loudest ovation I ever received in my twenty-two years of wrestling and could be the favorite moment of my career...something I'll never ever forget." This shows how he really appreciated being in the WWE and being liked by the WWE. Bryan had his favorite moment because of his friends, more specifically Glenn Jacobs (Kane) who teamed up with him and they became so over (popular) that their program lasted longer than they expected. Bryan also liked the fans cheering for him and Glenn because of how amusing they were.

A Connection

Hello guys, this is more of of a more serious post or blog, but in the book "Yes: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of Wrestlemania" by Daniel Bryan, he talks about in the epilogue of his father and how after he was married, his father passed away. Not too long after I read that a lady from my church named Hermana Dominga had passed. I never really got to do all the things I wanted to do with her just like Bryan. Bryan's dad didn't get to see the wedding because of his dad's wife had pneumonia which oddly was the same symptom Dominga had. But Bryan had found about it by, "Bri and I were leisurely preparing to go to Raw, when I got a phone call. My dad had died, completely unexpected, at the age of fifty-seven. I went from an unequivocal high to an unequivocal low." And I had felt so lowered down like a chunk of my heart was taken away, I never really go to talk to her because she spoke Spanish and I didn't know any, but I always thought that I would one day have a conversation with her and that I had all the time in world. I didn't. And I won't. "I hugged him, trying to say good-bye, but nothing felt good enough." I never really got to say anything to Dominga in her casket because I just felt ashamed, I felt ashamed because I didn't do want I wanted to do, she was like a third grandma or a first because I never known my grandmas. I feel I can connect to what Bryan was feeling because of his death and sadly both of us won't see them ever again.

Thank you for everything, Hermana Dominga

1932-2016

Musical Mayhem

What I am looking forward to this spring is the musical because the experience is so fun for the musical. I remember last year they had asked me to be a bunny which caught me off guard, but then in the end, I ended up being the show stealer getting the most cheers. Sadly people remember me as the  "Bunny Boy"  which isn't so great at times.

BLOGGING: My Improbable Journey to Writing a Blog

Hello guys, Whole Blogging Show here and I want to talk about a memory moment in the book, YES: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of Wrestlemania by Daniel Bryan or Bryan Danielson, which is a froot auto-biography (I really like auto-biographies if you didn't notice) about Daniel Bryan (Bryan Danielson) talks about his Journey to the WWE and journey to the Main Event of Wrestlemania. Though this is a kind of minor memory moment I kind of find it interesting. So what had happened is that Byran was finally signed to the WWE and was on their show NXT which was prepping them up for the main roster. Bryan though felt stagnant having no direction in being there having a 0-10 losing streak. When he was eliminated from the show, they had taken him backstage for an interview, they asked him what it felt like leaving the Independent Circuit of wrestling to go to the WWE and to be losing like that. Obviously wrestling isn't real, but rather scripted, it ticked him off that they would ask something like that and he replied, "'Well, that's funny because 'Daniel Bryan' never wrestled on the independent scene,' I said. If you go on and YouTube 'Daniel Bryan,' all you ever see is WWE. But there was this guy, man, he was out there, he was kicking people's heads in: people called him the best wrestler in the world. He was champion in Japan, Mexico, and Europe. And do you know what his name was?'" This was significant because of how Bryan, who now was furious, reflected on how in other companies, he was made champion in the other companies, but now in the WWE, they wouldn't book him to win a single match. 

The interviewer tries to cover up what he says by asking what is next for Daniel Bryan, Bryan said this, "'Daniel Bryan' might be done, but Bryan Danielson-God knows what's going to happen to him." They had to make him redo the interview, but I think he had a memory moment in all of this about his old status with wrestling. Bryan Danielson wrestled all over the world and he remembers that, soon saying "God knows what's going to happen to him." I think he is trying to say that Bryan Danielson will be given better treatment as a wrestler than Daniel Bryan will be treated as a Wrestler, since on his quote, he compares the two wrestling backgrounds. One having a losing streak which in some cases signifies that you're jobber (someone who persistently loses) and the other being a long reigning champion in Europe and America, and championship reigns in Japan. That is why I think this is a memory moment, it is a memory moment because he reflects on his career and the new character of him, Daniel Bryan.

Anne Frank Adversity

Anne Frank has had so much things that she struggled with in hiding. She couldn't live like an average thirteen year old, having to sit around in her house for hours. And yet she still had the mind set like one, she couldn't go with her friends, she couldn't see her favorite bands anymore, she couldn't even talk about things with her family throughout the day. And yet I haven't gone through this the same exact way, I am empathetic towards her. My mom doesn't often let me go to a friend's house, and even though it is not much, I feel ten times worst knowing that Anne couldn't do even half of what I am able to do, she has gone through so much adversity and a lot of people don't realize how much she had gone through and still try to live her life like a teenager.

Holocaust Review for the Upstanders

People were afraid to stand up, even though most fates were concealed. They didn't want to go through dying and were scared to stand up for everyone. Those who stood up realized that it was over and might as well take a chance, they knew that they were destined to die so they might have well just stood up for everyone else to live a little longer. I don't think I would have made impact even if I tried, with all the torture and strict punishments, I would have not survived to see my myself standing up for hundreds. So I think even if I tried, I would need a strong force like an army to charge through Nazi's in order to be an upstander who succeeded.

A Humbled Man.

Now for this chapter of Best in the World at What I Have No Idea by Chris Jericho (which is a froot book you can buy at a bookstore near you) I want told talk about the chapter "Humbled", it is about Chirs Jericho who had gotten drunk from drinking to much and was calling off everybody. Shawn Michaels (a veteran wrestler) was eating with his family and it was pretty late. Drunkicho (as said by himself) was swearing very loudly and was told be Hurricane Helms (that's like the third wrestler this blog) told him about his swearing, it says "'I'm not swearing that much! Besides, he shouldn't have his kids out this late anyway,' I bleated belligerently. Hurricane told me to keep my voice down and I said defensivly, 'I wasn't talking loudly.' But I was wrong, for Shawn and his family got up and left their table. I hoped I hadn't insulted them and yelled out, 'See you ou tomorrow, man!' He walked out the door without saying anything, but ten seconds later, he stormed back into the room, his eyes ablaze. 'You shut your damn mouth,' he warned me. 'Yeah, my family is up late and if you've got a problem with that, go to hell!'" He left as he glared at me and left the room." Now this quote had sent Jericho to a whole different level, he felt guilty for all he and kind of set him straight. He needed to apologize and fix his problems with Shawn Michaels. But when he was talking with Shawn, Shawn told him this, "'You need to start acting like a top guy if your ever going to be one. Staying up all night drinking and being an a**hole ... you're losing everyone's respect.' I expected him to tell me next that fat, drunk, and stupid was no way to go through life, and I was humbled because I knew he was right. There's a certain level of responsibility in being a top-level performer and certain line you can't cross if you want to be taken seriously as a locker room leader." I think it shows a lot of Jericho's humbleness (well now he was humbled). He wasn't acting like a locker room leader and was calling off guys and being disrespectful. And after chatting with Shawn Michaels, he realized it. He wasn't acting like a leader like he shoud have acting was acting like an a** in his Drunkicho stage. But Shawn showed him he was humbled from acting that way and that is why I like this chapter.

The Best Blogger in the World at What, Blogging of Course!

I have recently started reading the book The Best In The World At What I Have No Idea by Chris Jericho and I love it so much that I am almost done with it, I bought on the book on Friday (1/22)and started to read it, I checked the amount of pages there was and my eyes blew eye of my sockets and yanked back in. It was 400 pages! Now I am typically and slow reader, or so I though, as of today I am on page 335 which is a breakout for me, I guess I am really enjoying the book. Now I found it kind of hard to blog about it because it is Non-fiction and you are kind of limited to what you could write on it. I was thinking of talking about words of the wiser from a chapter, but I actually want to share my favorite chapter and what it means. My favorite chapter had to be "Santino Gump" this chapter had to be the top 5 funniest chapters of this book, in summary it is about a new wrestler who had joined the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) he had gotten a lot of heat (which isn't froot) and was kind of put down by the veterans of the company. I think the biggest part of the chapter is when he had a shoot with a fellow wrestler Bob Holly. What had happened is that Santino botched (messed up) one of the moves in his match. He had said he was the wrestler he ever faced which hurt Santino a lot. Santino had replied back to him, "Come on. Really? The worst? Are you sure? You must've worked with someone worse than me." It amused me that he wasn't trying to be rude and actually thought that he wasn't the worst possible opponent. He was confident enough to say he wasn't the worst It amused me ever more that Holly replied back, "'OK, you're not the worst ... but you are one of the worst!' Santino nodded his head, satisfied with the upgrade." Now even though this really amused me it shows that Santino was a very fortunate guy and sometimes wouldn't take no as a complete answer, but rather have it as a maybe. Jericho is able to describe how Santino acts and how he responds towards conflict which I like a lot.

The United Sta - I mean Kingdom

I would really love to visit the United States, I mean Kingdom so then I can know the difference between the two countries. But really I would love to visit the United Kingdom to see Big Ben, probably the biggest clock of all time. I don't really know if you can go inside but imagine being in there, sure all you'd see would be gears, who knows though. What if the clock is just made up of one thousand little clocks. That would be froot (I just made froot up like a champ)! If not the United Kingdom I would love to visit Denmark, not just because it is the number one rated place to visit, but because it has legoland! I wonder though if there is actually Lego built houses, you could like recontruct house anytime you want! Now that is froot!

The Comparison

I've found a lot of things different between Sorcerer of the North and Battle for Skandia in terms of the characters. In Battle for Skandia. In Battle for Skandia our main characters are Will and Evanlyn. Will, who is brave from his training as a ranger does unwise things in battle which can get him killed, he is saved by Horace a friend who learned a lot from him in terms of respect. Evanlyn who has to be the bravest of them all, risks her life as to being around the presence of Slagor who wants Princess Cassandra dead which is her true identity. Now we have new characters who help Will in his new assignment, the only character who remained is Halt who was Will's mentor for the first four books until his departure to be assigned the Araulen while Will takes over a village of the castles. The first is a dog, who I do not know what what her name will be, it is shown by, "Then, setting the bow aside, Will knelt beside the wounded dog lying in the grass" this is the first charcter that is introduced, the second is John Buttle who was the man who had injured the dog, he is greatly known for abusing animals as said here, "He's a herder by trade. But he does most things. Some say he does his real work at nights along the roads, looking for travelers who are about after dark. But no one's proved it. He's a might too handy with that spear of his for my liking. He's a good man to stay away from." and "If Buttle's the one who hurt that dog, he'll do well to stay away from me," both pieces of evidence showing his description and how he is more cold in terms of his liking and respect. He is brave like Horace and Evanlyn, but not in a good way.

Things That Are Confusing Me

In the fifth book of the series Ranger's Apprentice Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan I am pretty confused as to how it starts. It starts with, "In the north, he knew, the early winter gales, driving the rain before them, would send the crashing against the shore, causing white clouds of spray to burst high into the air." I have to say it starts off pleasantly, but one question, why is he in the north, you can't just change what the storyline is, this is a horrible attempt at showing us how his life is in the future. 'Cause in Battle for Skandia he is heading south, and where is Halt, or Evanlyn? Later it says, "Again, that was his training: to see without being seen; to notice without being noticed." "That was his training"? I thought he chose to be with Halt to train more. In the last book it showed Will saying, "'You do me great honor, your majesty. But my wish is to continue my training as an apprentice." What is Flanagan getting at, did he just not remind us that it's the possible future? I hate the fact that he couldn't explain that this is later in his life! Unexceptionable!

New Year, New Stuff I Guess

A lot of people have a "Resolution" for the New Year and end up failing at their goals by February, and to the people who end up fulfilling the goals, congratulations. Instead of making goals that I knew I can't complete by New Years' Eve 2016, then I will make areas where I should improve. Starting off with my grades, I know having a lot of 2's is okay to have now and really isn't bad, but I rather have more 3's in things that I am struggling with, so instead of saying I want to have 3's, I am going to say I am going to work harder to have more 3's and 4's. Also a lot of people choose a lot of goals to complete in one year, I don't want to overwhelm myself though, so I will just keep this my only goal right now.

The Character Development of Will and Evanlyn

After a long, nice and relaxed break I am ready to blog again. The blog will be the conclusion of "Ranger's Apprentice: The Battle for Skandia". Now what I've noticed with the character development is mainly Will and Evanlyn, also known as Princess Cassandra but I'll talk about that in a bit. Will and Evanlyn are a big storyline in this book since they have been captured by Skandians and later escape with their befriended Skandian, Erak. Though they made an escape there is still no support from Will since in the he was a victim of warm weed which had caused him to be ill and not be any help. Now though in the next book; Battle for Skandia, Will has gotten better and could actually help Evanlyn. Evanlyn fears as though he is still not recovered completely and should rest while she hunts for food. On one of her hunts she is captured by the Temujai invaders and is unable to return. Will not knowing where she is comes up with scenarios of what could have happened to her. The evidence to prove this is, "Deep down in the pit of his stomach, a vague uneasiness stirred as he wondered what could have become of his companion. He reviewed the possibilities." this show how he is thinking of many possibilities of what could have happened to her and how he has developed since the first book. In "The Ruins of Gorlan" Will is just a boy who has many questions and does not think much of what he could possibly do. Now he is more matured and understands how to handle situations thanks to the mentoring from Halt. Now Evanlyn's character development is astounding. From "Burning Bridge" she has developed to a brave princess fighting for her land, Araluen. Then in "Icebound Land" she becomes clever as well as brave having Will and herself escape from being slaves and nurse Will from his addiction. Now she has a huge role. Because the Skandians have realized that she is Princess Cassandra, the whole backstory behind this is that the Skandians have sworn to kill anyone of the Araluen kingdom family and Cassandra being the princess had to conceal her identity as Evanlyn, but after Skandians noticed her looks being familiar and a lady accidentally exposing by calling her "my lady" Cassandra realized that she might as well reveal her identity with all of their evidence to show it is her. An argument starts like this, "'I am King Duncan's daughter' she said with a slight emphasis on his title. 'Cassandra, Princess of Araluen.' 'Then you are my sworn enemy," Slagor said, spitting the words out. 'And I have that your should die.'" she is soon saved the Erak with these words, "Erak stepped forward. 'And I've sworn that she will be safe here, Oberjarl' he said. 'I gave my word when I ask the Ranger to help us.'" this shows how Cassandra was going to be killed by Erak saved here. This also shows how in front of a bunch of Skandians working for Slagor, she was still able to reveal her identity with ease and bravery. That is why I think Will and Evanlyn/Cassandra were the main developed people in this book.